Business Law

Although the parties continued to negotiate terms for defendant’s promotion of a concert featuring plaintiff Wiz Khalifa at George Mason University, with defendant holding out for plaintiff to release a new album, an email from plaintiff’s agent to defendant indicated ...

Although a contract for new home construction states that the warranty of Va. Code § 55-70.1(C) is “specifically waived,” absent contract language indicating the property is sold “as is,” a Richmond Circuit Court overrules defendant builder’s motion to dismiss plaintiffs’ ...

In a subcontractor’s Miller Act claim on a payment bond issued by defendants, the Harrisonburg U.S. District Court dismisses the claim as time-barred. Plaintiff TopSource filed a warrant in debt in a Virginia general district court on June 20, 2012, ...

An Alexandria U.S. District Court grants defendant government security contractor’s motion to compel arbitration of three employees’ claims that they were not paid for all the hours they worked and not paid proper pay rates; although only defendant may force ...

In this suit alleging defendant breached a teaming agreement with plaintiff to win a federal contract award, an Alexandria U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to defendant, concluding that the parties’ teaming agreement was not meant to provide a binding ...

An Alexandria U.S. District Court takes a close look at plaintiff’s request for $132,137.90 and awards $89,207.90 by deducting claimed expenses such as videography fees for depositions, computer animations and “metadata extraction.” On Sept. 27, 2012, the court granted summary ...

A Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses a subcontractor’s suit alleging that various defendant contractors on a state construction contract refused to pay plaintiff because it was a minority-owned contractor, as plaintiff makes only conclusory allegations that do not satisfy the ...

In this dispute between an Afghan company that subcontracted logistics services for the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Pakistan and a Virginia global logistics services contractor, a counterclaim is not barred by the parties’ earlier “agreement to agree,” and the ...

Two independent contractors for a private security company operating in Iraq and Afghanistan must arbitrate their False Claims Act retaliation claims, as the incorporation of the American Arbitration Association Commercial Arbitration Rules in the governing agreement is a “clear and ...

An Alexandria U.S. District Court says an arbitration clause in Independent Contractor Agreements signed by two firearms instructors does not require arbitration of the instructors’ claims that the government contractor violated the False Claims Act by terminating them for reporting ...